Dear Stuart, A few years ago we started an overview of video annotation projects and tools for the EUscreen network. We haven't been able to turn it into a state of the art document as of yet, but I'm hoping it would be useful for such an endeavour: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CIL8oQjkAtUe2LGInrUgxpNzj5k9s17Mihz6UotIM/edit?usp=sharing Kind regards, Erwin Erwin Verbruggen Project lead R&D Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Stuart Snydman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs to > annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and > streamed on the web in our local environment). We are still gathering > requirements, but it needs to: > > > * have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better on > the web but not an absolute requirement > * create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of time, > and have those annotations associated with regions of the video image. > * annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc. > > We’d prefer open source solutions that can be integrated into a web app, > but aren’t fully closed to alternatives. We’d strongly prefer a solution > that supports open standards for annotation or is at least capable of > supporting open standards. > > I know there are many, many video annotation projects. What is the > current state of the art in web-based video annotation making and viewing? > > Many thanks, > > Stu > >